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I've been trying to avoid painting faces since it seems rather hard, but well, one can't avoid forever...

I've painted a few faces so far and this is the latest. I'd be grateful for some comments and critique on how it's getting along so far and what might be improved upon. More pics can be found in my gallery or in my p&m blog. Thanks.

I like it! it looks kinda pale in someparts but other than that GREAT

They look solid tabletop quality. Are you basecoat/washing/highlighting at the moment to get to this point?

Thanks! Yes, I basecoated him quite a long while back, so I no longer remember what colour I'd used. I added a wash of devlan mud around the eyes and nose, and a wash of gryphonne sepia under the check bones and around the beard, then I highlighted the nose, cheekbones and forehead with elf flesh. I also gave the lip a wash of bleach bone-scab red.

By the way, here's another face which I've just painted today. Larger resolution compared to the previous picture. Is this less pale now?

Yes. Damn, you are a monster. That is amazing...

Thanks for the encouragement! After painting a few faces, it's not as hard as I first thought. The eyes though, are still a major pain to paint properly. And I'm still not succeeding yet.

Hi, dude i paint mostly heads instead of helmets for my minis and i gotta say yours are pretty dam good your skin tones are spot on. you have your shadows where they should be plus your highlights blend in nice to the medium tones so all i would say is keep going the way ya going as they look pretty dam good..! nice work

Thanks, bullyboy76! Would have you any advice for painting the eyes?

Yea you got the face thing nailed down. Good job!

Hi mate just use bleach bone instead of white and get ya self a good fine paint brush myself i rarely do eyes have a look at my minis un you will see what i mean.

@ Depraved: Thanks!

@ bullyboy76: Wow! Your minis look superb. I didn't know that they can look that good even without having the eyes painted. Great stuff.

Looks pretty excellent. Better than me, for sure. But you paint with paint, while I just wash all my faces